In addition to currency, trade, and disputed islands, Japan can add one more form of covert warfare it is now engaged in with China: atmospheric. We first wrote about the relentless exports of Beijing's toxic smog, which has been migrating in an eastern direction, over the East China Asia, and parking right over downtown Tokyo, nearly a month ago, but only now has Japan formally responded to what can only be classified as Chinese atmospheric sabotage. According to Japan Times, "Authorities will urge residents to stay indoors if the level of toxic
smog spreading to Japan from China is expected to exceed twice the maximum limit set by the central government, officials said." And with Chinese smog overnight already literally off the charts virtually every day, as seen most recently here...

... one wonders just what is this great economic reflationary miracle Japan intends on conducting, with everyone ordered to stay indoors or better yet, not breathe? The good news, is that as explained previously, China's inbound toxic air should promptly fix Japan's untenable "top-heavy" demographic situation.

The Environment Ministry guidelines say prefectural governments will recommend that people, especially those with heart or lung diseases, the elderly and children, refrain from going outside or ventilating their homes if the average amount per day of the air pollutant PM2.5 (particulate matter 2.5 microns in diameter) is projected to top 70 micrograms per cubic meter.

The ministry has set a limit of less than 35 micrograms for the pollutant found in toxic smog. The alert will be issued if the level exceeds 85 micrograms in an hour in the early morning, since the average amount per day would then be expected to surpass 70 micrograms, based on past monitoring data analysis.

The alerts will be not legally binding, according to the ministry, which set the guidelines based on findings on health hazards caused by PM 2.5 and standards in the United States.

The hazardous particulate matter PM2.5 can be absorbed by the lungs and cause heart and lung disease.

One can't help but be amused by the hypocrisy of a government suddenly concerned about the health of its citizens, and imposing limits and such, when in the aftermath of Fukushima, the government would arbitrarily set maximum radiation dosage exposure limits, only to double them the next day when they were thoroughly trounced.

My wife's best friend is Chinese and a legal translator. She just returned and said the city (forgot name - Quangjow - sorry, they all sound alike) she worked was the most toxic place she'd ever been. "Unlivable"/ lights on at noon to break the smog/gas masks/a gooey "film" on her clothes and in her hair. If China was trying to find a more self-destructive pathway she could not have picked a better plan.

That's all you got clip on just your anonymous -1 junk to a truthyism, no pigeon english retort, no chinese colloquial euphemism you could reply with to illustrate the grandeur of your communist culture over the round eye. you disappoint at every turn but you already knew that.

All of that money spent on reducing carbon in Japan wasted. Didn't anyone realize that the wind blows from West to East. But, at least the radioactive ocean between Japan and Hawaii has clean air (with statistically insignificant less CO2) hovering over it.

What you just read was the conflatuation of two opposing and polluted streams of ananonymystical 'chinese' citizenism consciousness, resulting in the mutual and total annhilation of all pre-existing (if highly attenuated) quanta of rationality, with the subsequently produced highly charged particles of insanitation and hypocritizenism being emitted in an unfocused and incoherent beam of non-mattering radiation at a wavelength of 412 ms (megashites).

Alas, alas, the positive square root of nine alas, Chinese citizenism conflatulence can only lead to a praecoxology of dementia. Previous offuscatory psycholotron experimentation resulted in the insanitationary particles reaching a state of hypocriticality, whereupon the incoherent beam began to exhibit properties of AnAnonymoronic waves.

Such tinkering with the laws of eternal nature creates the risk of disoriental catastrophe, because when a Chinese citizenism citizen is forced to admit one's own nature, it usually smells bad.

Much of crusty truthness is bitten off in your throating of the mind regarding the supercritical and hyperhypocritical eternal nature of AnAnonymystical 'chinese' citizenism.

Making as so, recent experimentationalizings in the new Shangdong Superconflatuating Supercollider have conclusively demonstratized that the 0.9999999c collisionings between the insanitational boson and the roadside crapton result in the production of highly energetic but unstable anti-selfindictons, which spontaneously decompose into a chaotic mixture of "uncharm" quarks, parangons, anti-logicons, and brownbabyMaons.

But you cannot SEE radiation, which is the important thing. Being environmentally friendly and socially conscientious is all about getting rid of the visible problems, not actually making things better.

tut, tut, Sudden Debt, NONE of the parties had more than 19% of the vote - I would not call that "winning" and sure not "undemocratic" - after all, all the others together got 80% of the electoral support...

Research is showing that the black carbon in soot significantly accelerates ice melt once it settles on the ice, by decreasing ice albedo and absorbing sunlight. This is turning out to actually prove a greater influence on melt rates than atmospheric heating because the heat created by the black soot is applied directly and immediately to the ice.

Chinese buoys placed near islands claimed by Beijing but controlled by Japan are intended to monitor ocean conditions and should not be “played up,” a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Tuesday following questions from Tokyo.

Japan had asked China to explain the purpose of the buoys, which were placed just outside Japanese waters near uninhabited East China Sea islands called Senkaku by Japan and Diaoyu by China. Some in Japan had speculated that the buoys were intended to detect the movement of submarines.

United States intelligence agencies recently detected China’s military shifting road-mobile ballistic missiles closer to its southern coast near the disputed Senkaku Islands amid growing tensions between Beijing and Japan over the islands dispute

My own experiences growing up in London, it was acid rain strong enough to bleach brollies, ignored when it came from our chimneys then outraged when it blew in from the continental US or Europe. Same with Chernobyl. Outraged until the milk board told everyone irradiated milk from cows eating grass laden with hot particles was perfectly safe. I'm sure we all have similar tales to tell of hypocrisy and being sacrificed on the altar of business/government/tptb, pushed and prodded to hate the "auslander" to feed the next war machine.

Those poor Japanese bastards just can't catch a break. They are the poster child for environmental destruction. The Pacific washes away ALOT of the toxic shit. I'm surprised the maritime environment hasn't dissipated the smog.

Just keep your eyes on Japan. They are leading the way in the 'environmental destruction' category, much like Detroit leads in the 'post-industrial economic collapse' category.

A toxic fog from China reaches Wall Street: a belief that a state-directed economy, zero political rights or democratic participation in government, an insolvent banking system with mountains of bad debt, lethal pollution, and one of the world's most corrupt governments has produced an economic "miracle" that will keep the rest of the global economy afloat.

Really funny to see the Japanese government set limits on the amount of Chinese smog it will allow to enter the country. I suppose this is a bit like US immigration laws, so the next step will be to offer the smog a green card and pathway to citizenship?

Oh and don't forget to blame the Chinese later when your lungs unaccountably turn into ground beef. Radiation cannot possibly be blamed for lung cancers, no sir. Not while we have evil Chinese particulates.

Au contraire, it takes years of exposure for one to develop serious illness. The elderly can go about their business as usual knowing that they will be long dead from something else. It is the young, particularly infants, who pay the highest price.

Same with radioactive fallout really (excepting direct exposure to massive gamma radiation), aside from treatable thyroid problems, it takes years for serious illness to develop. That's why you send old people to clean up radioactive sites; they will be dead before it gives them any problems.

Now go ahead and be good sheep and tell me I just hate the elderly and I'm in the pay of the "pollution industry".